Comments on: Sesame Street’s Grover Asks: Why Do People Need a Day of Rest?

By: Poteaux

Poteaux — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:12:00 +0000

I would like to add that of coarse not everything set apart is holy. Rabbi Steinsaltz has great essays О НАС holiness at steinsaltz.org.
Can one ask ЗАЧЕМ only one day of rest? I’m laughing now because I’m thinking of Oliver Twist when he asks ‘Please, sir may I have some more?’.
Can it be like that of taking a candle into a very dark room. Only one is needed.
One holy day per week as prescribed by the Master of the Universe.
It’s good to laugh.

By: Poteaux

Poteaux — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:08:00 +0000

I did not know that a day of rest was a comparatively new idea. The idea has always been a part of life for me. I should probably be very grateful for that, even though I may not have embraced the idea entirely and at all times.
But as a child this was part of tradition in my home and it does leave an impression. For me the idea rings of a unifying awareness, a call to stop in the name of creation is an affirmation of the Creator. This of coarse is the impression of one point of view, and perhaps awareness comes easier for some more than others.
It has been said that good cannot exist without evil as one possibly, somewhat, defines the other. Maybe it can be said that creation cannot exist without a time of no creation for basically the same reason.
So a time is set apart, a day, and to be set apart is the very definition of holy.
Thanks for listening to my thoughts, from my part of the “communi-tree”.

By: Edna_sweetlove

Edna_sweetlove — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:17:00 +0000

Jolly good!

By: Edna_sweetlove

Edna_sweetlove — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:16:00 +0000

ЗАЧЕМ a day of rest? Because they’re tired, slaving their guts out for a Jewish employer!

By: Hej

Hej — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:29:00 +0000

Once I did not keep Shabbat. I worked 7 days. I almost died, as depression is a fearful disease. I now keep Shabbat as a day on which if a thought О НАС work or my health of myself pops into my head I close the door on it, and focus on the Holy One, and enjoy the day as given where we may ponder on the 7th day of Rest promised to the world in Messiah.

By: Deborah Stein

Deborah Stein — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:44:00 +0000

This is a cute video explaining Shabbat.

By: Arnie

Arnie — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:07:00 +0000

“Re-infusing some spirit of life” Each and every day offers thousands of such opportunities .Every day can and will be a holy day if and only if we sanctify it with the presence of G-d in all the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart. Routines of life need not be routines if we do not routinize them with our thoughts and by forgetting the purpose of our lives which is to know that we are not separate from God, alone and afraid.